"Look. You are not fooling anybody when you say that what happened fifteen years ago was a natural disaster, alright? It was not an earthquake. It wasn't a typhoon, okay? You're lying because you're hiding something out there. I'm right, aren't I? I DESERVE ANSWERS! Y'see? There it is again. This is what caused everything in the first place, don't you see that? And it is going to send us back to the stone age! You have no idea what's coming."

"Nature has a way sometimes of reminding man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up the terrible offsprings of our pride and carelessness, to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now Godzilla, that strangely... innocent and tragic monster has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us, remain..."

Steve Martin in Godzilla 1985

"Watch as Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich transform the most iconic movie monster of all time into a box-headed, chicken-legged, no-atomic-breath-having, Jay-Leno-chinned, stupid-faced, flat-nosed piece of ***!"

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